Two ties decided

Published September 29, 2016

KARACHI: Zeeshan Secondary School and Qadri Model School emerged latest winners in the Group ‘C’ encounters of the Omar Trophy Inter-School Cricket Tournament.

Zeeshan Secondary School defeated St Paul English High School by four wickets at the KCCA Stadium

Electing to bat first, St Paul English High School scored 185-9 in the allotted 40 overs with 51 extras helping their cause, while Sohaib Sameer (30) and opener Umar Abdullah (27) were the leading scorers.

The wickets were shared by off-spinner Mohammad Muneeb (2-27) and medium pacers Mohammad Faizan (2-27) and Mohammad Bilal (2-30).

Zeeshan Secondary School were in a spot of bother at 63-3 in their chase before Muneeb (30) and Haris Ijaz (47) added 65 for the fourth wicket.

Meanwhile, Qadri Model School overwhelmed Qamar-e-Bani Hashim School by six wickets at the TMC Ground to inch closer to the quarter-finals.

Qamar-e-Bani Hashim School were bowled out for 97 in 23.1 overs. Medium-pacer Aurangzeb Ahmed (3-29) was the pick of the bowlers with spin trio of Abdul Basit (2-15), Saad Bin Yousuf (2-15) and Azizullah (2-18) doing the rest. Qadri Model School needed only 9.5 overs to knock off the target.

Published in Dawn September 29th, 2016

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